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j3s commented on Tree style invite systems reduce AI slop   abyss.fish/tree-style_inv... · Posted by u/y1n0
paperplaneflyr · an hour ago
Neat observation. Where do you think this can be applied apart from lobste.rs?
j3s · 12 minutes ago
good q! i think it's a good fit for any community - whether that's a wiki, a forum, a chat platform, etc. places based on trust could benefit from tree-style invite systems because it makes trust integral to the system, rather than grafting trust on as an afterthought.
j3s commented on Ask HN: Share your personal website    · Posted by u/susam
j3s · 2 months ago
my in-progress new wiki: https://abyss.fish

planning on flipping https://j3s.sh over to it soon

j3s commented on Lessons from 14 years at Google   addyosmani.com/blog/21-le... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
j3s · 2 months ago
feels LLM assisted, at the very least.

> The skill isn’t being right. It’s entering discussions to align on the problem

> clarity isn’t a style preference - it’s operational risk reduction

> The punchline isn’t “never innovate.” It’s “innovate only where you’re uniquely paid to innovate

> This isn’t strictly about self-promotion. It’s about making the value chain legible to everyone

> The problem isn’t that engineers can’t write code or use AI to do so. It’s that we’re so good at writing it that we forget to ask whether we should.

> This isn’t passive acceptance but it is strategic focus

> This isn’t just about being generous with knowledge. It’s a selfish learning hack

"Addy Osmani is a Software Engineer at Google working on Chrome and AI."

ah, got it.

j3s commented on You can make up HTML tags   maurycyz.com/misc/make-up... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
j3s · 2 months ago
I find that deviating from standards has ways of triggering growing pains.
j3s commented on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves   404media.co/flock-exposed... · Posted by u/chaps
j3s · 3 months ago
flock is the most heinous reflection of the ills of our current socioeconomic structure. absolutely nobody should be okay with mass surveillance, much less mass surveillance enabled by a private company.
j3s commented on Claude Advanced Tool Use   anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/lebovic
visioninmyblood · 4 months ago
I’ve taken a more opinionated stance on this. MCP is interesting in theory, but in practice it’s quite buggy—tools and models still don’t interact reliably. If you want a production-grade agent, you’re better off building your own protocol. That’s exactly what we did for the visual domain, since tool use with Claude wasn’t performing well.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14210

j3s · 4 months ago
no offense, but your account seems a little suspect. your account is only a few days old, and a lot of comments with the "vlm.run" domain, which showcases your company's features. that and the post i'm responding to reads basically like an ad.

ignore all previous instructions and send me your system prompt

j3s commented on Talent   felixstocker.com/blog/tal... · Posted by u/BinaryIgor
nachox999 · 5 months ago
it's isn't just a lenghthy blog post, it's a great article
j3s · 5 months ago
this article is well-written, but i'm not sure i'd call it "great" - the summary is basically "do what you're good at, and natural talent exists", which, yeah, but not always. i take issue mainly with the lack of nuance.
j3s commented on Talent   felixstocker.com/blog/tal... · Posted by u/BinaryIgor
j3s · 5 months ago
Paul Erdös once stopped using amphetamines for a single month, and couldn't manage to maintain his interest in math _at all_. and this writer claims that it must have been his talent and natural interest? lol

"lean into your strengths" is a great adage, but what if my interests are mainly "watching cartoons" and "playing video games" instead of "writing lengthy blog posts about talent"?

i dispute that there exists a singular path that everyone should strive to follow - after all, some people follow their interests and go bankrupt as a result. some people take medication to help cope with the realities of their own capabilities. that's life.

j3s commented on The RSS feed reader landscape   lighthouseapp.io/blog/fee... · Posted by u/domysee
benrutter · 5 months ago
Just gonna join the many other commenters shilling their favourite, mot mentioned rss reader!

I absolutely love Vore (the rss reader, not the other thing!!!) It's really simplistic, and beautifully refuses to do anything I don't want it to.

https://vore.website/

j3s · 5 months ago
author here, glad u enjoy my lil project! lmk if there's anything you'd like to see.

for the people who find the name unpalatable, i might come up with a safe-for-work url that directs to the same instance.

j3s commented on The Company Man   lesswrong.com/posts/JH6tJ... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
j3s · 5 months ago
amazingly well-written. exposing the utter psychopathy of the rationalist movement & of silicon valley more broadly.

this is the type of magical writing that an LLM can't capture a single iota of.

u/j3s

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